Seventeen-year-old commoner Askold Sidorov, in a past life the heir to the great imperial house of Alexandrites, acquired his first comrades-in-arms in the new world and entered the prestigious Scarlet Wisdom Lyceum. Recently he received a letter from an unknown well-wisher. Who in this world could know what happened to him in a past life? Who is using the old code? There is an urgent need to figure this out, and yet the first stage of the all-empire battle tournament is just around the corner. And also a school ball for which you need to choose a partner. And... how did it happen that Askold found himself drawn into a squabble between boyar families?